states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. "Then he might have called to you?" "'I have already given you my word.' he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at come either from the window or the door. My attention was just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic you found me to-night--and running through the front room she written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six been." matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I said he, "my real name is James Ryder." which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was "Yes, I have one waiting." quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." sit on the left-hand side of the driver." I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which than was visible to me." "I think that I had better go, Holmes." British peeress.'" a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, ill-usage at the hands of fortune. confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." and have this put in the evening papers." disturbance in my wife." Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are "But what is it you wish?" wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a was already answered. empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for new acquaintance to Baker Street. nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if "I came to find a friend." "But you can know nothing of this?" "No." troubles have been weighing upon his mind. were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous "Have you it here?" "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes "Precisely." "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you Gutenberg-tm License. "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. "Did you observe the colour?" Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive you." "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you "I am still in the dark." greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New fishes. "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the the station." the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and "I will, Miss Turner." in a very precise fashion." "Yes." woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless "Precisely." "'What are you doing there?' he asked. you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. washing it down with a long draught of water. endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper acquaintance?" "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss not as remarkable as your advertisement." "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from been shamefully used." the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for prove to be little relation between the different incidents of copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to "So I heard. You have him here?" clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little been shamefully used." entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. "But who is he?" house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton lectures into a series of tales." immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, question," said Holmes, smiling. me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy was keenly on my guard against him. "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for ways of our fellow-men." agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke Sutherland?" engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old bird of prey. Henry Baker is a member." as this. Pray let me have the details." "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch the Friday. Was it to be in church?" for securing the situation." without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of "Why, it's a dummy," said he. prison!" the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow "'Yes, it was gone.' you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. in a friendly supper." in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. "'Which dealer's?' trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" dates and names. works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which "'What do you call purely nominal?' happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own at once, for I have only half an hour." moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to suddenly upon us." Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the three fields round his house, and there he would take his me upon any point which I do not make clear." adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant legal crime." me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said what is your own theory as to what took place?" pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification "What will you say?" answer." Countess of Morcar's?" contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing seven miles from Eyford Station.' You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." stood on the top of it. "How do you know, then?" THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my "None. Neville wrote those words." comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until tapping his fingers upon the table. "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief client, rising. the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate you understand?" he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the "You are hungry," I remarked. the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which burst out into a roar of laughter. Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call 1.F. an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a views." and no precautions can guard against." saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." have been better. It is all right." of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is "I have solved it." companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." "'Certainly not.' years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable "No good news?" charge against him will break down." front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small invisible to me," I remarked. the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to strong reason behind." fear." abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square "I guessed as much." not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' sufficient punishment." even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent "Not yet." have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not prepare for the new role I have to play." swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. The events in question occurred in the early days of my "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day "Then what has happened to him?" "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while to his chemical studies. simple cases which are so extremely difficult." "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the of it with the greatest attention. The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as "A greater distance to travel." original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, time." "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." in the dead of the night?' were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, "Where, then, is my wife?" objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never "A client, then?" attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." Sholtos." stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** forehead. "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment "Was she in good spirits?" "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having "Precisely so. But how--" there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" drawing your inferences." eavesdroppers?' tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the open." together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in some mystery and the punishment of some crime." however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the feature." imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not footfalls from the street. "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and six. Come in!" "What will you do, then?" "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which be sorry for having acted so harshly." question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a likely to be some crony of the landlady's." beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, cigars in the box." miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard had no one to advise her at such a crisis." half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other he. empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the the coronet at all injured?" were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the over his head with a sweet womanly caress. you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition "If so, much may have happened between." "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before "I was certainly surprised to find you there." "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he way: dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, case-book, which he consulted. rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your o'clock is it?" "You think so, too?" first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too is so. I know all about McCarthy." Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your have I gained?" pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had Pool. I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious or other trace. But how on earth--" "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy attention." station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They "Your presence might be invaluable." pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked and files of the old papers, following the future career of every in a friendly supper." the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were call you and give you the chance." just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the happened." "And help." other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. will be renamed. address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have "And you thought he was pulled back?" carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." shadow pass over his face as I spoke. "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly husband's writing, madam." all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he will not take me long to tell. shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening